Out of Place...

Have you ever felt just out of place, like you just don't belong somewhere. I honestly hate it! I've felt that way so many times in my life. What I've come to conclude though is that it's one of Satan's greatest tools against me. He'll make me feel so out of place, that I just recede into a hole and just not bother with trying to feel like I belong. Well tonight was one of those nights. Just out of the blue I didn't feel like I belonged anywhere. I was talking to one of my best friends and he told me something. At the moment what he told me made me feel like he was really my friend, some one I could trust, some one who cared for me. But what he said reminded me of a book. Daughter of a King, was the book. It's one of my favorite books. I love it, and I haven't read it forever. So I finally took it out and read it.
For those of you that haven't read it I'll give you the low down on it. The book is about a little girl-Katie-she is told by her parents that she is a daughter of a King, and that the King loved her dearly. Although the King lived far away in the Crystal Palace, the time would come that Katie would be able to make it back to Him. As Katie grows up she is teased by the village kids, and told that she isn't a Princess, but Katie finds a friend that believes that they are both Princesses. One day Katie and the other village kids steal a pie from a widow in their village. Katie breaks down a tells her parents what the did. She then makes a pie for the widow and takes it to her and tells the widow what they had done. The widow forgives her and has Katie eat the pie with the widow and her grandson-Michael. Katie and Michael grow to know each other and talk about the Crystal Palace since Michael was taught that he was a Prince, they are later married. They both have to remind each other that they can make it to the Crystal Palace, they have to keep dragging each other there. In the end Katie and Michael stand in front of the gates and Katie says

"I'm afraid...What if I don't belong? All of my life I've wanted to come here. But what if the King doesn't know me, it has been so long, and I am so worn and dirty. I don't feel like the daughter of a King."
"He will know you, Katie." Michael took her hand in his.

After they go through the gates the King comes to Katie and says

"I have missed you so very much, Katie. You have always been my princess, and I love you." he hugged her close.

We can take so many things out of this book. But for this post I'm taking the most obvious thing out of it, and that is "I'm a Daughter of a King." Every Sunday I recite the Young Women's theme "We are Daughters of a Heavenly King who loves us and We love him." I'm a Daughter of God. That's where I belong, He loves me for who I am, and what's in my heart. He doesn't care what I look like, He just cares about what I believe and who I really truly am. He loves me for all my flaws and all my sins and all my faults. He loves me for me.
We are all sons and daughters of God. And He loves us each individually and knows each of us.
I am so grateful for Him, and for the love he gives us. He gave his life for us so that we could see him again. "When I asked Jesus how much he loved me; he said this much, and held out his arms and died for me"
To my dear friend who reminded me of this book. THANK YOU!! I owe you so much now, you reminded me of this book, and the book reminded me of who I am. Words can't express what I just experienced because you of what you said. Thank you!